Officer Safety
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Incorporating a formal toolset into an agency’s social media program can dramatically help officers sift through data at a very large scale
Vocal interactions impose a detrimental burden on the brain that lingers on even after a given task has ended
Police1 Editor in Chief Doug Wyllie and retired San Francisco officer Jim Dudley discuss current news, offer advice, thoughts, tips and laughs for officers
Batons can be very effective in controlling violently resisting subjects but this requires the right equipment as well as necessary training to ensure effectiveness
If all team members are trained to a common standard, every one of them should be interchangeable within the team
Officer deaths this year have jumped by 112 percent since March 2009
Police who don’t wear seat belts insist there’s a reason
One officer remains in critical condition on life support
The LCR, a radical new snubnose .38, seems like something out of Buck Rogers, and when you read the list of ingredients, it seems even more space age
How can we get sound tactical training when our bosses won’t send us? Sometimes, we have to train ourselves
No matter what kind of shape you’re in, what’s important now is to prepare for the fights and foot pursuits that are sure to happen on your next shift
The bizarre booby trap is the second attack in 2 months on this task force
San Francisco is one of the few major cities that doesn’t arm officers with stun guns
Cops came to remove man who threatened a neighbor, but Errol Parker Sr. shot at officers
Resilience is the term that best describes our goal in the Street Survival Seminar to make you more likely to “win!” in life
Officer James Peters of Scottsdale (Ariz.) PD just had his sixth OIS — some reporters have decided there’s something wrong with that on its face
Police officers are constantly collecting information — the difficulty lies in effectively using that information over time
Applying the law of large numbers to recent officer fatalities may reveal a disturbing trend — at the very least it makes us stop and think
Failing to understand that humans are in a constant state of communication can be deadly
Police received a call about a man who disconnected gas lines
Police say robbery suspect assaulted officer before she fired her weapon
Officer Kevin Wilkins was trying to put a rubber sleeve on the grip of his pistol when it discharged
Police instructors have to plan training scenarios according to an ever-changing landscape — this may mean throwing the “standard directions” overboard
Smaller agencies under budget constraints are “doing more with less” and getting on board with mobile shooting ranges
Customs, ICE officers ‘did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms’
Officers were trying to arrest a registered sex offender
Police encounters against armed assailants are on the rise — how can we ensure that cops win those fights?
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